No. 9 Toreros topple Pacific in 3 games

STOCKTON - The Pacific women's volleyball team regressed on Saturday afternoon as No. 9 San Diego swept them in quick fashion.

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By Jagdip Dhillon

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By Jagdip Dhillon

Posted Oct. 27, 2013 at 12:01 AM

By Jagdip Dhillon

Posted Oct. 27, 2013 at 12:01 AM

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STOCKTON - The Pacific women's volleyball team regressed on Saturday afternoon as No. 9 San Diego swept them in quick fashion.

The Toreros fired on all cylinders in a 25-20, 25-22, 25-18 victory before 687 at Spanos Center for the annual "Pacific Plays Pink" promotion. The Toreros had to score an extra point in the first game due to an official scoring error or the game would have ended two points earlier.

The Tigers (11-11, 4-7 West Coast Conference) had an opportunity with the second game tied at 22-22, but the Toreros (17-3, 9-2) scored the last three points and swept in 1 hour, 29 minutes.

"They have a great defense and they're so scrappy, it's hard to get a ball down," Pacific coach Greg Gibbons said.

"When your setter is almost your leader in kills and your pins don't want to take big swings, we failed today as a team."

Sophomore setter Kimmy Whitson had six kills to go with 27 assists and five digs, but Pacific hit just .152 as a team. Senior Megan Birch led Pacific with nine kills, but on 40 attacks.

"They didn't play their best, we just played really bad," Birch said. "Our communication, passing, hitting ... everything was bad. They overwhelmed us a little bit."

"We served and passed really well," San Diego coach Jennifer Petrie said. "We're a difficult team to defend when we pass that well."

The Tigers lost to the WCC's two best teams over the course of 40 hours, as No. 19 BYU, which beat Pacific 3-1 on Thursday, remains undefeated in conference, but still behind the Toreros in the national rankings. Petrie said the Toreros are focused on avenging a sweep loss to the Cougars earlier in the season and hoping another team can upset BYU.

"They play two different styles as BYU is a powerful blocking team, while San Diego is a finesse team that forces errors," Gibbons said. "Both teams have five hitters and are playing at a very high level right now."